Uncivilized person

Usage examples of savage.

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

Those men still in the swamp spend much of their time acurse at the cold, but they have at least the advantage that the stiltspear, perfidious wetland savages, have retreated and no longer harry them.

The type of theology and method of instruction used by some of the earliest laborers in this field left something to be desired in point of adaptedness to the savage mind.

The savage insensibility of Jovian appears to have aggravated the hardships of these unhappy fugitives.

Hardfaced men--the agitators who had been prominent in the trouble from the first--mounted soap boxes at street corners, and began to label Aunt Nora as a sinister woman, and Doc Savage a murderer and worse.

Buildings were burning and most of the civilian population was running in aimless panic, looking for a place to escape the phaser beams and swinging blades of the savage invaders.

One bay east, and on the opposite side of the aisle, is the tomb of Archbishop Savage, who died in 1507.

Peru with only a few savage tribes as neighbors, savages who look upon the alate as gods of some sort and have no intercourse with the white men.

Distracted, the sentry made a clumsy parry and Alec sprang under his guard with a savage swing.

Janos Slynt and Allar Deem, while his sister continued on her savage course.

But nowhere on the web page did it make mention of its most famous and notorious alumnus, Joel Rifkin, the most savage serial killer in New York State history.

The loneliness of Usu Bay is something wonderful--a house full of empty rooms falling to decay, with only two men in it--one Japanese house among 500 savages, yet it was the only one in which I have slept in which they bolted neither the amado nor the gate.

The apish savages, lacking the agility to leap the streets, were greatly handicapped.

For he approached the idea of the sacred vessel, not as did Sir Giles, through antiquity and savage folklore, nor as did the Archdeacon, through a sense of religious depths in which the mere temporary use of a particular vessel seemed a small thing, but through exalted poetry and the high romantic tradition in literature.

Anglo-Australian tunnel by two ruffians, the more savage being a jack-of-all trades whom I had previously known by sight as a hanger-on of the journalistic profession, while the other, a sinister figure in a strange tropical garb, was posing as an Artesian engineer, though his appearance was more reminiscent of Whitechapel.